Battlefield 3 Black Screen during start-up

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Hi, I have a Nividia 525m graphics card with a Dell XP5 15z laptop that has an intel 1.5 processor and 6GB of RAM. I just bought Battlefield 3 a few days ago and, when I try booting it up (from both origin and the original file), it will give me a black screen and say that "Battlefield 3 has stopped working." i saw that other Nvidia users were having similar problems. I also heard there was a patch to fix this on the forums, but I have no idea where to find it and I can't even get to the main menu of the game to change settings/download the patch. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
 
Why will it not run BF3?
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-525M.43889.0.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo2eAzfFNIc

Minimum requirements for Battlefield 3

OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
RAM: 2GB
Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
Graphics card memory: 512 MB
Sound card: DirectX compatibl sound card
Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version